All Films

Pedacinho do Céu

2016 • 15 min • Brazil

In the heart of Rio de Janeiro, Maria da Graça (Léa Garcia), the devoted and hardworking mother of Pedro (Vinícius Patrício) lives in the highest and isolated spot of the Pedacinho do Céu favela, who works hard to maintain her son's studies. He, in turn, eagerly awaits the outcome of the college entrance examination and an eventual scholarship. In the context of a competitive and unequal society, Peter's failure can definitely seal his fate, but a victory and overcoming can also take its toll.

Rock'n'rollers

2016 • 24 min • Netherlands

Sia (15), Bas (14) and Vince (13) are three best friends who’ve been playing for years in the psychedelic rock band Morgana’s Illusion. When Sia falls into depression, the future of the band is at stake. Rocknrollers is a lively youth rockumentary about friendship, growing up and the power of music.

HIT TV //The Prologue

2016 • 12 min • United States of America

HIT TV is a love letter to 80's Action-Thrillers. The short takes place in a neon 80's city called Emerald Bay. An illegal TV show has mysteriously appeared every night posting murderous bounties. The organization running the show, highjacks broadcast channels to air a seedy and haunting call-to-action where people are identified for murder and priced accordingly. Happy Hunting, Players…

Before Morning Comes

2016 • 15 min • Indonesia

A prostitute and a street sweeper meet one night and have a conversation that brings kindness for them.

Pull Like A Dog

2016 • 53 min • Ireland

A documentary film looking back at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, including rowing brothers Gary and Paul O'Donovan, who won silver medals at the games. In August 2016 Gary and Paul O’Donovan, two young rowers from West Cork in Ireland, came from nowhere to become household names after bolting their way to silver medal success at the Rio Olympics. Not only did they become the first ever Irish rowers to bring home Olympic medals but within a week Paul also went on to become the fastest singles lightweight rower on the planet by winning gold at the World Championships. With catch phrases like ‘Pull Like A Dog’ and ‘Stheak and Spuds’ these two young men have succeeded in warming the hearts of a nation.

Vor deiner Tür

2016 • 1 min • Germany

In the moments before the first date, the excitement increases until the door opens ... A short film about falling in love.

Bight of the Twin

2016 • 55 min • Benin, United States of America

A documentary film that will take viewers to Ouidah, Benin, the geographic heart of the Vodoun religion, where friends and collaborators, director Hazel Hill McCarthy, III and cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, explore the relationship between Vodoun and Western secular art and performance by trying to answer the question of what embodiment is.

I'm Not From Here

2016 • 26 min • Chile, Denmark, Lithuania

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in Chile.

A Case of the Cold War: Bridge of Spies

2016 • 17 min • United States of America

The piece opens with Steven Spielberg's family history with the real life events and follows with cast and crew examining the politics and history of the time, the screenplay's inspirations, espionage and intelligence gathering of the era, the story's relevance today, character attributes, and the Francis Gary Powers and Frederic Pryor stories and their depictions in the film.

Used Body Parts

2016 • 8 min • United States of America

Two friends fight for their lives and body parts when they stop at a gas station where the owners have a horrific ulterior agenda.

Up Close & Personal

2016 • 5 min • Canada

A glimpse into the relationship of a young couple as they contemplate their place in the world and with each other.

Heterônimo

2016 • 25 min • Brazil

Mariana lives at the bottom of the sea. One day, her teacher Cecília introduces her to Christian, a prince from another world.

The Embroidered Dress

2016 • 20 min • Turkey

Above Club: A documentary about We Are The City

2016 • 30 min • Canada

An insightful look into bending perception using social media and how a Canadian band tested the boundaries of innovation.

The Circuit

2016 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Newly arrived in town Nat and Gabe accept a dinner invitation from the volatile Hungarian Helene and her boorish husband Sasha. Whilst the other guests, ex-Bananarama member Marty, Angie, who 'makes bullets' and the supposedly suicidal Danny are affable enough, Nat and Gabe are shocked by their hosts' very public rows and Gabe's attempt at peace-making is awkwardly received. Nat is taken aback when virtual stranger Helene confides in her about Sasha's suspected infidelity and Gabe is rudely rebuffed when he tries to have a heart to heart with Sasha. After Helene physically attacks her husband the newcomers are desperate to leave but when Danny drops a bombshell Gabe is torn between responsibility and the easy way out.

Banshee

2016 • 14 min

While she was under the supervision of her big sister, Olivia got lost into the woods overnight and got back with something different. She didn't come back alone.

The Passage

2016 • 11 min • United States of America

An ill fated young man who is destined for Hell tries to escape the Devils grasp.

Vampire's Rage

2016 • 30 min • United States of America

A hip-hop dancer turned vampire sets out to end the evil reign of a vampire goddess in attempts to get his life back.

A Game

2016 • 11 min • Mexico

Two brothers, Fernando and Pablo, enjoy a playful relationship. One night, their usual games take a different path, becoming something real and completely unknown.

An Aviation Field

2016 • 14 min • Brazil, Portugal, United States of America

Moving and mysterious, Joana Pimenta’s An Aviation Field juxtaposes the natural and the manmade as it links the great utopian modernist project of Brasilia to the volcanic crater in Fogo, Cape Verde, and offers speculative futures for a troubling past.

Life After: Chernobyl

2016 • 45 min • Ukraine

Thirty years after the worst nuclear catastrophe in history, which sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere, biologist Rob Nelson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota are the first scientists to be granted unlimited access to the Chernobyl exclusion/danger zone to investigate how the environment and the wildlife have been affected after three decades of radiation exposure.

The Committee

2016 • 14 min • Finland, Norway, Sweden

Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide which piece of art should be placed at the border of their countries. But the committee is in for a surprise… The delegates are faced with the challenge of making a democratic decision: is there something they can agree on to represent a true Nordic movement?

Forces

2016 • 9 min • Canada

An intense bromance between a gay football player and a straight military guy.

The Greatest Love

2016 • 41 min • Thailand

"Jane" and "Por" two beautiful girls, that must be dated secretly because Por doesn't want her mother acknowledges that she has homosexual love. Although, Por and Jane live together under an agreement to conceal this secret smoothly, deep inside Jane's heart still have hope wanting to let Por reveal this love without having to care about anyone's eyes anymore. And finally, it's time for Por to dare to tell her the truth. What will the story be like?